Martha My Dear tab by The Beatles

Tabs

MARTHA,MY DEAR

Written by: John Lennon - Paul McCartney
orginially appeared on the album, "The Beatles" (the White Album), 1968

Notes:
This is mostly a piano & orchestra performance on the White album.
I've always liked the song, so came up with this arrangement for guitar
accompaniment.

Any ideas for fleshing this out, improving or arranging an intro for it,
let me know. Also, this is my first full attempt at writing guitar
tab notation, so hope its close enough for government work .

I use capo at 3rd fret (chords listed are transposed to 1st position)
The song is really in key of E MajorE flat on the record (not C majorC)

 Martha   my  ...

  C majorC  C5C5   C6C6 C majorC    C5C5 C6C6 E minorEm Em9Em9 Dsus4Dsus4    D MajorD  D5D5 Dsus4Dsus4

E MajorE|-0---3-------5---0-------3---5--|-0---2---3---3---3---2----5--3--|
BB|-1---1-------1---1-------1---1--|-0-------3---3---3---3----3--3--|
G+G|-0---0-------0---0-------0---0--|-0-------2---2---2---2----2--2--|
D MajorD|-2---------------2--------------|-2------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-3---------------3--------------|-2------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .

 please...      be good to  ...

  D MajorD                G5G5       FF

E MajorE|-2-------------------3---2---0--|-3-------3-------1---1---1---1--|
BB|-3------------------------------|-3----------3----1---1---1---1--|
G+G|-2------------------------------|-----0---------0-2---2---2---2--|
D MajorD|-0------------------------------|-----------------3---3---3---3--|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------|-3------------------------------|
  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .


  don't forget ...

  G7G7       FF    F(add 9)  G7G7       FF    F(add 9)

E MajorE|-1---1---0-------1-------3--------|-1---1---0-------1-------3--------|
BB|-0---0------3--0----1-------1-----|-0---0------3--0----1-------1-----|
G+G|-0---0-----------------2-------2--|-0---0-----------------2-------2--|
D MajorD|-0---0-----------3-------3--------|-0---0-----------3-------3--------|
A augmentedA|-2---2----------------------------|-2---2----------------------------|
E MajorE|-3---3----------------------------|-3---3----------------------------|
  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .   +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .

  dear ...             ...
                  -------
  G5G5               | B minorBm
                  |
E MajorE|-3---3---1--0------------0--1----|---this part I just strum the---|
BB|-3---3---------3---0--3----------|---chords as shown below--------|
G+G|-2---2---------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD|-0-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-2-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|-3-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .  +  .


B minorBm           E minorEm     D MajorD         D/F#D/F# D/G D/G#
Hold your head up, you ...


A augmentedA               E minorEm
When you find ...

A augmentedA         E minorEm       F# minorF#m    B minorBm
Help yourself to a ...

B minorBm    E minorEm E minor 7Em7 E minorEm  C majorC  Csus4Csus4 C majorC
You silly ...


(middle eight - staccato eighth feel for the chording)

B minorBm        E minorEm
Take a good look ...

B minorBm        E minorEm         A augmentedA
Take a good look ...

G+G             B minorBm        E minorEm E minor 7Em7 E minorEm  C majorC Csus4Csus4 C majorC
Were meant to be ...

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